Hmm you obviously have the details down better than I do. I'm running from a gut feeling here, but would the body not have problems regulating the bloodsugar levels with this kind of drain outside of normal channels? Would you need some kind of insulin production inhibitor drug?
Didn't they invalidate the GPL themselves when they distrubeted sold liscenses to linux under a liscense other than GPL? Don't they now have no right to distribute the software or code? What am I missing here? (Can anyone besides Linus sue on this one?)
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OK, as many (perhaps to many) of you have pointed out, using enough glucose out of the human bloodstream to get 100W would be a bad thing(tm). However, the story isn't talking about taking 100W from the bloodstream, its talking about making devices that can transform glucose from many sources into electrictity. One of the mentioned applications is sugar-powered robots, in this situation it wouldn't be a problem to draw 100W, also let's not forget about larger than human sized animals. You probably wouldn't be nice if you got 100W even from an elephant, but slightly smaller amounts of power should be ok.
Most importantly, the whole laptop thing is a joke, this is not intended to power a laptop people. If used inside the human body, this would be to power nanomachiens (almost no power drain) and medical implants (which don't draw huge amounts of power either).
Stealing? Who's talking about stealing? We're talking about copyrightinfringement here. What? You didn't know there was a difference? The fact that stealing, by definition, deprives the origional owner of the thing being stolen? The "owner" still has the same access to the movies as before. The movies are not being stolen.
"What about the money the copyright holders arn't making?" you may now ask. "Isn't this stealing?" No, the copyright owners never had the money, thus it cannot be stolen. Why is this difficult?
"What about the constitutional right to intellectual property?" Try reading the constitution. All it says about copyrights is that the congress may set a copyright. But this isn't to protect people's intelectual property, the point of the option of copyright law is clelarly spelled out in the constitution. The point is to further the advancement of the art by granting a TEMPORARY monopoly to the creator. There would, however, be no constitutional ground whatsoever to stand on if congress decided to revoke the copyright laws, it is not gaurenteed.
"But its still illegal!" you may now protest, your arguments becomming flustered. NOW I'll agree. This is obvious copyright infringement. This is illegal, under current laws (which I don't agree with but accept as law) but this does not make it theft.
Marvoulous! Absolutely marvoulous. That is the best troll I've seen since the days of Adequacy a now defunct site dedicated to creating the most appaling trolls possible. First note this starts as a ligitimate discussion, you arn't talking gay niggers or saying microsoft is god, no you start with ligit discussions that already have reader intrest, so that people won't ignore the entire thread because they can smell the troll. Indeed you even come up with a defendable hypothesis that has merit, but then in the middle you stick in a comment that is gaurenteed to stear the conversation from the topic of merit to an insignificant detail. (That's because analogies are retarded and unneccessary. If you actually had a valid argument, you wouldn't need to use an analogy) This is so utterly preposterous (any elementary logic class, debate class or rhetoric class will cover analogical arguments in great detail) that it will completly throw most readers off trail and furthermore irritate them enough that they will, instead of ignoring the troll portion of the post and moving on, respond off the top of their heads in a confused sputtering rage. Their responces will make them look like fools especialy when they realize they have been successfully trolled.
Did you get a responce? Did they send you even a form letter on aquiring a liscense? If they were allow such, would you really buy an autographed liscense from their lawyers? Basicly, what will you do if they call your bluff?
Um thats like saying that because the congress has the power to create laws, breaking any law is constitutional. Something is only unconstitutional if it is against the rules laid out in the constitution, not against rules that the constitution gives permission for somebody else to make.
Really, it deals with the struggle for acceptance of an artificialy created non-human with humanlike, or even superhuman intelligence and extremly superhuman abilities. It shows the effects of lack of acceptance as a ligitimate entity with equal rights to others. It shows rigidity of human thought when dealing with entities that go beyond the bounds generaly considered of its generaly subhuman type.("It's a Pokemon, that means it can be captured!") Truly this movie has the elements neccicary to radicly alter our children's perspective towards nonhumans enough that perhaps, by the time the pokemon generation is voting, the idea of nonhumans with equal rights will be acceptable to the american public.
Yes, but the bar/pub/whatever wouldn't make as much money, they COUNT on people who have the mentality "I bought it I may as well drink it" but here's a hint, if you didn't order it, you don't have to pay for it. A second hint, some places know that if you cover your beer glass, (use a napkin or a coaster) then you don't want any more.
Ah, its not saying the post is redundant, but that the METHOD of posting is redundant, and as such this falls under the same IP as every other post on./
Yes, and for a long time. It was my first x86 Shareware (had some apple II before that) and is still a program that I think every system should have. Winzip just doesn't come close. The old PKzip could do everything from multi-disk spanning, to varriable levels of compression. It was small elegent, and worked. If PKware had made an OS at the same quality, Microsoft would have gone out of buisness before it was such a Monopoly:)
Personaly though, I think only people who care enough about politics to actualy know what's really going on should vote. I think people who vote just because someone told them they should are the most likly people to vote down party lines. But if you must put "Go and VOTE" on a peice of paper, you could at least say what canidate to vote for. (If it is some wacky independent it actualy might become a legitimate flash mob, sorta, although it wouldn't confuse people untill they see that on one day, at one location, canidate x, got more votes than he did in his previous three attempts at office. Just please, make sure it's someone you wouldn't mind if he got elected.
On second thought, this is a very BAD idea, we don't want to tamper with the elections. It's already been done.
While we're at it let's storm Fort David, or any other military establishment, Soldiers won't shoot people en masse who march on their locations would they? What do you mean that's their primary job?
Oh you still can't buy whisky in town, but you can still "taste" it. They gave out about a half teaspoonful to everyone in my tour group who was over 21 last I was there. *shrugs* Oh, and this is good, they can sell "commerative bottles" (you know bottles with fancy decoration on them) legaly, even if they just happen to be full of whisky.:) Loopholes!
If you come near Tennessee, (which I normaly would't suggust, but then, I live here) take a look at some of the facilities that the origional atom bomb were made in at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. True, some are still classified, but you can still see them from the outside, others are now open for tours. Also, please, stop by the neighboring towns that predated Oak Ridge, see the difference in the population, Oak Ridge is an artificial city, and it shows, there is a completly different culture in Oak Ridge and Oliver Springs, even though they are less than 10 miles apart.
If you're going anywhere near this area, go ahead and reply and I'll dig up more information, or look at replies to this, I may have already posted links to Oak Ridge tourist sites. (BTW the Oak Ridge Playhouse is usualy visited by the locals only, and if you make a show it is really good, and priced for real people, not tourists.) Oh, and if you come to Murfreesbor, TN (Middle Tennessee) you can see the world's larget ceader bucket.:)
They arn't doing the installations themselves, they're contracting IBM to install and SUPPORT the systems. Yes, I download linux for free on my own machine, but if somebody wants me to make sure a system is working, no matter what OS, and provide constant support, I charge.
This country's government was founded upon the right of the people to violently rebel. Much of Jefferson's writings indicate he fully expected a revolution every 70 or so years. (The time refrence is my own, to my knowledge Jefferson never put a number to it). This is even the real reson for the right to bare arms, not to hunt, not for a national gaurd that the president can call up (Which is what a few people have been known to say is ment by "melitia") no, the idea was to arm the citizenry so if the government got out of controll it could be disposed of. *sigh* Now it would be so much more bloody than it would have been if we'd been on our toes for the last hundred years. (Either that or democracty will fail to corperate bids for controll (To those who read Busby, think Bush/Enron are the beginnings of U.E.T.?)
Thank you sir, please step over here, no we're not charging you with anything, just making sure your not a terrorist. No, we don't know when/if you will be able to see your family again.
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Hmm you obviously have the details down better than I do. I'm running from a gut feeling here, but would the body not have problems regulating the bloodsugar levels with this kind of drain outside of normal channels? Would you need some kind of insulin production inhibitor drug?
Didn't they invalidate the GPL themselves when they distrubeted sold liscenses to linux under a liscense other than GPL? Don't they now have no right to distribute the software or code? What am I missing here? (Can anyone besides Linus sue on this one?)
Most importantly, the whole laptop thing is a joke, this is not intended to power a laptop people. If used inside the human body, this would be to power nanomachiens (almost no power drain) and medical implants (which don't draw huge amounts of power either).
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"What about the money the copyright holders arn't making?" you may now ask. "Isn't this stealing?" No, the copyright owners never had the money, thus it cannot be stolen. Why is this difficult?
"What about the constitutional right to intellectual property?" Try reading the constitution. All it says about copyrights is that the congress may set a copyright. But this isn't to protect people's intelectual property, the point of the option of copyright law is clelarly spelled out in the constitution. The point is to further the advancement of the art by granting a TEMPORARY monopoly to the creator. There would, however, be no constitutional ground whatsoever to stand on if congress decided to revoke the copyright laws, it is not gaurenteed.
"But its still illegal!" you may now protest, your arguments becomming flustered. NOW I'll agree. This is obvious copyright infringement. This is illegal, under current laws (which I don't agree with but accept as law) but this does not make it theft.
I salute you!
Did you get a responce? Did they send you even a form letter on aquiring a liscense? If they were allow such, would you really buy an autographed liscense from their lawyers? Basicly, what will you do if they call your bluff?
Um thats like saying that because the congress has the power to create laws, breaking any law is constitutional. Something is only unconstitutional if it is against the rules laid out in the constitution, not against rules that the constitution gives permission for somebody else to make.
Really, it deals with the struggle for acceptance of an artificialy created non-human with humanlike, or even superhuman intelligence and extremly superhuman abilities. It shows the effects of lack of acceptance as a ligitimate entity with equal rights to others. It shows rigidity of human thought when dealing with entities that go beyond the bounds generaly considered of its generaly subhuman type.("It's a Pokemon, that means it can be captured!") Truly this movie has the elements neccicary to radicly alter our children's perspective towards nonhumans enough that perhaps, by the time the pokemon generation is voting, the idea of nonhumans with equal rights will be acceptable to the american public.
Yes, but the bar/pub/whatever wouldn't make as much money, they COUNT on people who have the mentality "I bought it I may as well drink it" but here's a hint, if you didn't order it, you don't have to pay for it. A second hint, some places know that if you cover your beer glass, (use a napkin or a coaster) then you don't want any more.
Ah, its not saying the post is redundant, but that the METHOD of posting is redundant, and as such this falls under the same IP as every other post on ./
(I like old stuff, what can I say? BTW anyone know where I can get 16 hardsector 5 3/4" Double sided quad density floppies? Or a copy of MP/M?)
And yes, it ran on DOS (PC-DOS, or MS-DOS)
Personaly though, I think only people who care enough about politics to actualy know what's really going on should vote. I think people who vote just because someone told them they should are the most likly people to vote down party lines. But if you must put "Go and VOTE" on a peice of paper, you could at least say what canidate to vote for. (If it is some wacky independent it actualy might become a legitimate flash mob, sorta, although it wouldn't confuse people untill they see that on one day, at one location, canidate x, got more votes than he did in his previous three attempts at office. Just please, make sure it's someone you wouldn't mind if he got elected.
On second thought, this is a very BAD idea, we don't want to tamper with the elections. It's already been done.
Obstruction of (pedistrian) traffic. Disturbing the peace. Terrorism (I'm sure its in the Patriot act somewhere)
While we're at it let's storm Fort David, or any other military establishment, Soldiers won't shoot people en masse who march on their locations would they? What do you mean that's their primary job?
Please do, then you can complain to somebody who actualy cares what you have to say, namly yourself. :)
Next time, don't throw them out, send them my way. I still have uses for such older hardware.
Oh you still can't buy whisky in town, but you can still "taste" it. They gave out about a half teaspoonful to everyone in my tour group who was over 21 last I was there. *shrugs* Oh, and this is good, they can sell "commerative bottles" (you know bottles with fancy decoration on them) legaly, even if they just happen to be full of whisky. :) Loopholes!
No free samples? Last time I was there there WERE free samples. Has this changed? Was I just lucky?
If you're going anywhere near this area, go ahead and reply and I'll dig up more information, or look at replies to this, I may have already posted links to Oak Ridge tourist sites. (BTW the Oak Ridge Playhouse is usualy visited by the locals only, and if you make a show it is really good, and priced for real people, not tourists.) Oh, and if you come to Murfreesbor, TN (Middle Tennessee) you can see the world's larget ceader bucket. :)
They arn't doing the installations themselves, they're contracting IBM to install and SUPPORT the systems. Yes, I download linux for free on my own machine, but if somebody wants me to make sure a system is working, no matter what OS, and provide constant support, I charge.
No we're even sillier, we ban words like "French Fries" and "French Toast" by ourselves.
This country's government was founded upon the right of the people to violently rebel. Much of Jefferson's writings indicate he fully expected a revolution every 70 or so years. (The time refrence is my own, to my knowledge Jefferson never put a number to it). This is even the real reson for the right to bare arms, not to hunt, not for a national gaurd that the president can call up (Which is what a few people have been known to say is ment by "melitia") no, the idea was to arm the citizenry so if the government got out of controll it could be disposed of. *sigh* Now it would be so much more bloody than it would have been if we'd been on our toes for the last hundred years. (Either that or democracty will fail to corperate bids for controll (To those who read Busby, think Bush/Enron are the beginnings of U.E.T.?)
Thank you sir, please step over here, no we're not charging you with anything, just making sure your not a terrorist. No, we don't know when/if you will be able to see your family again.